As you may have noticed, Road to Hellth posts have been few and far between since the re-election of President Obama in 2012. One important reason is that we started this blog in an attempt to highlight various landmarks that American Medicine is passing on its way to mediocrity, or much, much worse. Perhaps naively, we had hoped that our fellow citizens might want to

One very frustrating thing about living in 21st century America is that is seems perfectly acceptable for reporters and politicians to say or print just about anything, and immediately have it unquestioningly accepted by the vast majority of the voting public. Critical thinking, honesty and the quality of reporting seem to hit new lows each and every week. Perhaps this would not be so irritating

One of the major cost-saving initiatives behind ObamaCare is the consolidation of hospitals and doctors into “Accountable Care Organizations”, or ACOs. It is presumed that forcing these organizations to utilize the same doctors, hospitals, clinics, EMRs, labs, imaging centers and so on will create more efficient, seamless and less costly care. (This was not really borne out by Medicare’s own ACO pilot program, but that’s

Whether the American voters realized it or not, arguably the single most important result of the 2012 Presidential election had to do with the future of what President himself has now termed “ObamaCare”. Apparently admitting that resistance to ObamaCare is as futile as assimilation into The Borg, House Speaker John Boehner announced that “ObamaCare is the law of the land” and that House Republicans would

A few weeks ago (how time flies!), we set out to explore the various elements and implications of the newest addition to the state laws governing the delivery of healthcare in Massachusetts: “An Act improving the quality of health care and reducing costs through increased transparency, efficiency and innovation”, and officially identified by the rather more prosaic name of “Chapter 224 of the Acts of